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US military has launched 'major combat operations' in Iran - Trump

Trump says the US military has launched “major combat operations” in Iran, saying the country had attempted to rebuild its nuclear programme.

Edit: Gift link to the NYT live coverage

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[-] breakfastmtn@piefed.ca 7 points 2 months ago

A central goal of the first joint wave of strikes in Iran was to hit as many leaders as possible, according to three Israeli security officials familiar with the operations.

The officials said that, similar to the previous strikes in June last year, planners took into account that they would manage to achieve at least some degree of surprise. They calculated that if they wanted to kill senior Iranian officials, they had to try and hit them in the first round of strikes. Afterward, it is highly likely that more precautions would be taken to protect the leadership.

NYT

Videos verified by The New York Times show strikes in an area of Tehran that houses the presidential palace and Iran’s National Security Council, among other important government buildings. Another video shows a strike near Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence.

NYT

[-] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I guess Iran will be releasing those Trump videos now

[-] Nickelalloy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Do we have any community for following the war in Iran?

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

Death to America.

[-] wpb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Death to America, death to Israel

[-] breakfastmtn@piefed.ca 0 points 1 month ago

Israel’s military spokesman said Israeli forces had killed several top Iranian defense officials this morning. They included Iran’s defense minister, Gen. Aziz Nasirzadeh; the head of the Revolutionary Guards Corps, Gen. Mohammad Pakpour; and a top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Shamkhani. The spokesman, Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, said nothing about Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

NYT

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